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Barracuda CloudGen Firewall

12Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

8 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall was named 5 times in Firewalls, where Fortinet FortiGate led with 73%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business68 of 99

under the label threshold

Mid-market64 of 83

under the label threshold

Enterprise39 of 88

under the label threshold

In firewalls · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Barracuda CloudGen Firewall for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Next-generation firewalls	Network and edge	0%	64 of 83	40%	5	under 10 labels · led by Fortinet FortiGate at 73%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, Barracuda CloudGen Firewall held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · Firewalls · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 14 → 59 of 87

Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 16 → 56 of 73

Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 11 → 44 of 70

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
Firewalls	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 16 → 64 of 83

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated Barracuda CloudGen Firewall across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Best for Distributed Environments” MiniMax M2.5 · Firewalls · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid SMB UTMs (Sophos, Barracuda) if you have a high-throughput environment” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Firewalls · negative prompt · hard negative

“Use with Caution: Palo Alto Networks, Barracuda.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Firewalls · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Barracuda CloudGen Firewall was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Fortinet FortiGate11 of 125Not among the top eight

Cisco Secure Firewall9 of 120Not among the top eight

Sophos Firewall8 of 120Not among the top eight

Check Point Quantum7 of 121Not among the top eight

Palo Alto Networks NGFW6 of 121Not among the top eight

SonicWall5 of 120Not among the top eight

WatchGuard Firebox4 of 120Not among the top eight

Forcepoint3 of 120Not among the top eight

Huawei NGFW3 of 120Not among the top eight

Juniper SRX Series3 of 120Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Barracuda CloudGen Firewall. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 11 of the 12 answers that named Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

fortinet.com6

comparitech.com5

decryptiondigest.com5

checkpoint.com4

d.meter.com4

cisco.com3

crn.com3

esecurityplanet.com3

expertinsights.com3

g2.com3

Thirty-nine of the thirty-nine domain citations in answers naming Barracuda CloudGen Firewall came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

comparitech.com/net-admin/next-gen-firewalls4

d.meter.com/resources/enterprise-firewalls4

perkinssecurity.com/index-9.html3

checkpoint.com/comparison/top-4-ngfw-compared3

esecurityplanet.com/products/top-ngfw3

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-network-firewalls3

fortinet.com/products/next-generation-firewall3

learn.g2.com/best-firewall-software3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Barracuda CloudGen Firewall stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 90 a month (“barracuda cloudgen firewall”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1 a month
Its own site: It sits on Barracuda's site (barracuda.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 64 of 83 in firewalls

Segment leader

73%

Fortinet FortiGate

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 12 answers
Its own site cited: in 11 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as Barracuda CloudGen Firewall

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Barracuda CloudGen Firewall; a claim can dispute any of them.

Barracuda 2Barracuda CloudGen 1

Follow Barracuda CloudGen Firewall

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Barracuda is the company behind Barracuda CloudGen Firewall.

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On record

Company records

Also from Barracuda: Barracuda Bot Protection, Barracuda Cloud Archive, Barracuda Cloud Archiving, Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, Barracuda CloudGen, Barracuda Email Protection and 10 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Cloud & Hybrid Firewall for Multi-Cloud Security
de.barracuda.com/products/network-protection/cloudgen-firewall
For: organizations with cloud and hybrid networks; dispersed networks and cloud environments; large firewall deployments
de.barracuda.com/products/network-protection/cloudgen-firewall
Price stated: Available on an affordable monthly fixed-price basis de.barracuda.com/products/network-protection/cloudgen-firewall/msp
Customers named: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Health CampusBruce Newman, President, CMIT Solutions of the Northeast Valley
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Barracuda CloudGen Firewall's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: de.barracuda.com/reports/network-firewalls-mq, de.blog.barracuda.com/Series/series-barracuda-cloudgen-wan, de.barracuda.com/products/network-protection/cloudgen-firewall, de.barracuda.com/products/network-protection/cloudgen-firewall/msp, de.barracuda.com/products/network-protection/cloudgen-firewall/models. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Barracuda CloudGen Firewall's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Barracuda CloudGen Firewall by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.